Fishing Lac Retty in Côte-Nord, Quebec

• Overview

  Within Côte-Nord, Quebec, you have Lac Retty. The surface lies 589 metres up. It covers about 15.04 sq km, which means weather matters as much as tactics. The bank runs about 55 km in total, split between open shore and sheltered corners. It ranks high for size among our Côte-Nord listings. Labrador City lies 261 km from the water. For a city, Saguenay is 831 km off. It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Lac Retty

  Depth figures are not published for this one. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Survey and observation records for Côte-Nord include logperch. Take it as the county picture rather than a promise for this water. The shape of Lac Retty rewards a slow walk along one bank.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Average temperature peaks around 12°C in July and bottoms out near -25°C in January. Winter owns most of the year at this latitude. Ice-out usually falls in early June, and the weeks after it fish hardest. On average, early June opens the water and late October closes it again. September and October fish steadily right up to the freeze. Anyone fishing Lac Retty regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public sources are silent on who controls the bank. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. Nothing is mapped in the way of a ramp or car park within a short radius. For the perch, a small jig tipped with worm, dropped along the edges, is hard to beat. Where the road in crosses private land, ask first. Check whether bait restrictions apply before you buy any. Lac Anticline, 11 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Check the current arrangement for Lac Retty.